Re: [Cdrdao-devel] SCSI Read TOC format

Dave Burns wrote:
> The command given predates the MMC spec. According to the spec for the
> old Plextor CD-ROM drives, the 2 MSBs of the Control byte give the
> format desired, so the 80 in the last byte requests format 2.
Ah, that explains my confusion. I wondered about the 0x80 Control byte,
but all I could find about those upper two bits was "Vendor-defined".
The MMC spec could at least have mentioned this oddity in a footnote
somewhere.
Thanks,
Ingo

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Dave Burns wrote:
> The command given predates the MMC spec. According to the spec for the
> old Plextor CD-ROM drives, the 2 MSBs of the Control byte give the
> format desired, so the 80 in the last byte requests format 2.
Ah, that explains my confusion. I wondered about the 0x80 Control byte,
but all I could find about those upper two bits was "Vendor-defined".
The MMC spec could at least have mentioned this oddity in a footnote
somewhere.
Thanks,
Ingo